The next day we got up and went downstairs we both ate even though I don’t have to. I simply don't want to stick out to much. It seems like the ring I got was really rare. Once we finished eating my dad came in.

“so how are you two love birds? We are leaving today.”

“ohh were leaving early? Doesn't matter to me to much sounds good.”

“it seems that only the south gate is open for the next week due to assassin reports coming in against the royal family so were gonna have to walk around the city to get back. So our trip will take an extra 2 days.”

“so we will arrive at the time we set for back at home?”

“yes and for the village of mice”

I didn't tell my dad about the tournament or about my winnings or with what i used his cash for. I put everything in the ring of storage that I shouldn't have expect the ring of storage itself. I also leave the ring of nourishment on. We walk to the south gate and wait patiently the line is quite big but we got up early and arrived early so it isn't to horrible. We get out after an hour and a half and then start walking. Their are some like us who need to walk around the city so we bunch up together to get safety in numbers are their are real wolves in this forest. Not wolf man like me and my family.

The first day is completely normal, just walking. I keep adding stones to my ring of storage as we walk home coupled with the gravity rings adding one stone that weighs 1 pound equals 15 pounds of weight more that I carry. So its a great way to train today, I fell asleep exhausted that night. I still ate and drank even though i don't need to in order to avoid my fathers suspicion.

I awoke early the next morning with Anna and Father. We made good time and around one o'clock the village was in sight. However something seemed wrong. Then we heard it screaming.

“AHHH GODS HELP US ITS GOING TO KILL US! SEND HELP ANYONE PLEASE”

i simply stand their. If its that bad then we should just avoid the village. I look at my dad from his expression he is thinking the same thing. But Anna is not thinking the same thing and sprints forward. Since me and my dad carried all the stuff as making a girl do manual labour is unorthodox. She can out run us easily. I pull out my 5 tiered ring put it on and take off my ring of storage and my rings of gravity and sprint after her. A little girl fighting whatever it was would result in her dead. She however is to far ahead and entered the village palisade. I sprint leaps and bounds faster then her and arrive just after her.

That's when I see it fighting FEAR although FEAR is simply ignoring it as if it isn't even their. That it is a huge Cerberus. Although its not normal at all. Its a black wolf Cerberus and is heads, shoulders and an another head taller then my father. Two of its heads are fighting/annoying FEAR and the other one has the village elder in its jaw. The Cerberus sees and charges towards us. I grab Anna and jump directly up. I then land right on top of the Cerberus's back and then my hand slipped and hit the middle Cerberus's head from the back. The only word surfacing through my mind is

“PAIN”

Their was a blinding light and then the Cerberus stopped moving completely as if not knowing what to do. I look at the back of my hand and their is a tattoo like the one i got from the lizard when i tamed it somehow. Codex then speaks to me

“it seems you have attained another minion”

“what????”

“you tamed it.”

“how ???? all i did has hit the back of its head!”

“every book in the library had nothing on beast tamers so i can't help you.”

I can hear Anna crying. That's when i realize that her grandfather is dead. And from the looks of it last time we came he was her only family. She presses her head to my neck and starts bawling. There's no way the old man survived his right arm is missing and so is his left leg and his head is only attached by a portion of skin and that’s it.

“shhh Anna Shhh”

“Why did he have to die he was my only family”

“ill be your family now shhh your not alone Anna shh.”

after a while i see my dad walk into the village. None of the villagers have dared to come out of there houses. Not surprising considering their is a wolf Cerberus, i ask Codex

“uhm what did i name him again?”

“PAIN”

I then talk out loud

“pain sit boy”

he sits and i carry Anna princess style while she is still crying. I go to the nearest house and walk right in like i won the place. And say

“does Anna have any family left in the village?”

“no..sir she doesn't. Also why is the beast outside calm and collected now and listening to you?”

“im a beast tamer and i just tamed him he is like FEAR who has been eating your rats and mice. Once a wild beast but now forever my servant”

“so its safe outside?”

“yes”

“okay”

I put Anna on a chair where she keeps crying. I find a shovel and go outside. I find the graveyard and dig a ten foot hole down in 20 minutes. It would have taken me 10 if the shovel wasn't so weak. I then pick up the elder and put his body in the hole. By this time Anna is snivelling beside me and looking in the hole. I don't say anything and start filling it in it takes me ten minutes to fill the hole. My dad then walks up and says

“the town mage didn't even come out to stop it.”

“then lets pay him a deadly visit father.”

(its the job if the village mage to protect the people against beings that threaten the village that aren't normal an example is goblins or orcs.)

As we walk forward i call both PAIN and FEAR to me. We arrive at the door and my dad pulls out 2 dagger/short sword weapons. They seem like a cross between the two not quite one or the other. I told Anna she might not want to see this but she coldly repiled.

“if that mage was a man my Grandfather would still be alive.”

nodding to that we open the door.

“ahh so the danger has passed third house on the.....”

he can see that he aren't here for sleeping reservations. He gets up and yells

“FIREBALL”

a pathetic fireball the size of my normal fireball when im not even trying appears. I simply say

“water ball”

as if im whispering they collide and the water ball completely puts out the fireball and still hits him. I move quickly faster then my father or Anna and before he realizes i moved im right behind him. I grab his neck and

“CRUNCH”

its completely crushed it looks like a saggy piece of flesh. As if the area before hand had never held bone. I drag his body outside and call my new beast over

“PAIN”

he comes over wagging his tail and i throw the fat mages body over to him. His three heads ripe it apart as if its a toy. He then depart the village with me Anna and my Father in front with FEAR and then PAIN last. I slip on my rings and we leave the palisade. None of us even look back once.

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